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Eh I'd say daily. Especially in a case like screen studio where it's under active development.

jacquesm 3y ago
Why? Updates may or may not be to the benefit of the user, who should have a clear say in the time and place when their stuff is updated, nothing is more frustrating to have a job to do and then to sit there waiting for some silly update process to complete only to find out that (1) it doesn't matter to you anyway or (2) that they've borked the update or (3) that critical functionality you relied on has been removed or (4) that the marketing department thought this was a great time to try to upsell you on something. Mandatory updates should only happen for critical security issues and even those don't need to be fixed on a five minute interval, once a day at most for a check and less frequently is probably fine as well unless the app is absolutely mission critical and people will die. And even then you should probably wonder if your QA is so bad that you need to be able to intervene on a moments notice, better to design your process in such a way that you can alert the user rather than to forcibly upgrade their system, especially if there is a chance that you'll get it wrong (again). An upgrade is always a burden on the users, so you really don't want to do this too often and even if you are capable of releasing multiple updates per week it would be ridiculous to expect your users to follow that frequency.
- pluijzer 3y ago
  In the past if there was an update for software I use I was excited and was curious about all the improvements it would bring. Now when I see some app has an update I have a feeling of dread as I am sure it will be slower, the UI more clumsy and the power features I like will surely be removed.
- mschuster91 3y ago
  Someone please send that memo to Postman. I rarely need it but it will always ask for an update... two week release schedule.
JoBrad 3y ago
What about giving the user the choice? Give me a settings drop-down that lets me pick daily, weekly, monthly, or manual.
justsomehnguy 3y ago
I'd say no, back off and shut up. Especially if you are like Nextcloud client - just killing Explorer if you like so (without asking the user first) and then even rebooting the machine without asking user first. It's a glorified sync client, why the hell it should behave like that?

Why? Updates may or may not be to the benefit of the user, who should have a clear say in the time and place when their stuff is updated, nothing is more frustrating to have a job to do and then to sit there waiting for some silly update process to complete only to find out that (1) it doesn't matter to you anyway or (2) that they've borked the update or (3) that critical functionality you relied on has been removed or (4) that the marketing department thought this was a great time to try to upsell you on something. Mandatory updates should only happen for critical security issues and even those don't need to be fixed on a five minute interval, once a day at most for a check and less frequently is probably fine as well unless the app is absolutely mission critical and people will die. And even then you should probably wonder if your QA is so bad that you need to be able to intervene on a moments notice, better to design your process in such a way that you can alert the user rather than to forcibly upgrade their system, especially if there is a chance that you'll get it wrong (again). An upgrade is always a burden on the users, so you really don't want to do this too often and even if you are capable of releasing multiple updates per week it would be ridiculous to expect your users to follow that frequency.

pluijzer 3y ago
In the past if there was an update for software I use I was excited and was curious about all the improvements it would bring. Now when I see some app has an update I have a feeling of dread as I am sure it will be slower, the UI more clumsy and the power features I like will surely be removed.
mschuster91 3y ago
Someone please send that memo to Postman. I rarely need it but it will always ask for an update... two week release schedule.

JoBrad 3y ago

What about giving the user the choice? Give me a settings drop-down that lets me pick daily, weekly, monthly, or manual.

justsomehnguy 3y ago

I'd say no, back off and shut up. Especially if you are like Nextcloud client - just killing Explorer if you like so (without asking the user first) and then even rebooting the machine without asking user first. It's a glorified sync client, why the hell it should behave like that?